On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I compiled with sbcl, which apparently doesn't support readline. I'll
> recompile with another lisp. Any recommendations?
Just run it inside of rlwrap, which handles readline for other programs.
rlwrap is installable via apt-get, I think.
You can run any program <foo> as rlwrap <foo>,
there is also a shell script rmaxima which should be
installed with maxima which executes rlwrap.
best
Robert Dodier